Reviews September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

A desire for justice

Bobi Wine: The people’s presidentDirected by Moses Bwayo, Christopher SharpCertificate 12A, 121 minutesReleased 1 September

At the start of this remarkable documentary about Uganda, a small group of people engage in impromptu Christian prayer in a … Read More

The World Council of Churches at 75

29/08/2023 | Reform

Susan Durber celebrates 75 years of the WCC

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and our National Health Service have things in common. They are each marking a 75th anniversary, had William Temple among their architects, were formed in the … Read More

Airstrikes and dancing

29/08/2023 | Reform

Pek Muan Cuang reports on the trials and joys of the Church in Myanmar

The Presbyterian Church of Myanmar (PCM) started in 1956, not with missionaries from the West, but with local church elders who were not happy with the … Read More

When asylum seekers are found

29/08/2023 | Reform

It’s not just the asylum seekers whose lives are changed by one of the latest projects to win a URC Community Project Award. Laurence Wareing reports

The thing about DARE, says Negan, is that ‘you don’t have to go to … Read More

Colours of worship

29/08/2023 | Reform

Kim Wood celebrates the Meeting House at the University of Sussex

The University of Sussex was built in 1961 and is one of the seven ‘plate glass’ universities established in the 1960s. On the campus, in the midst of typical … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Exodus 14:13-14

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sue Walker learns how to trust God

This scripture hit me between the eyes 19 days before my 30-year-old daughter was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in December 2020, during lockdown. Now at some distance, I can look back at what … Read More